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单词 gerrymander
分类 英汉词典
释义
词典释义:
gerrymander
GRE
英 [ˈdʒɛrɪˌmandə]
美 [ˈdʒɛriˌmændər]

v. 对重新划分;靠重划选区获得

n. 对选区重新划分以获利的行为

  • 第三人称单数 gerrymanders
  • 现在分词 gerrymandering
  • 过去分词 gerrymandered
  • 过去式 gerrymandered
双语例句
  • Even apolitically drawn boundaries can unintentionally gerrymander.

    即使是不涉及政治的边界也可能在无意中被曲解。

  • First, the state's demographics are changing fast enough that an overly ambitious partisan gerrymander is likely to come unstuck during its ten-year lifespan.

    首先,本州的人口分布情况变化很快,如果偏向某个党派的选区划分进行得太过,在未来的十年里可能不能收效。

近义词
vi.
fiddle with
释义
v.

manipulate the boundaries of (an electoral constituency) so as to favour one party or class

(为助某政党或阶级)对(选区)重新划分。

achieve (a result) by such manipulation

靠重划选区获得(某种结果)

  • a total freedom to gerrymander the results they want.

    重划选区以获得所求结果的绝对自由权。

n.

an instance of such a practice

对选区重新划分以获利的行为。

词源

"early 19th cent.: from the name of Governor Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts + SALAMANDER, from the supposed similarity between a salamander and the shape of a new voting district on a map drawn when he was in office (1812), the creation of which was felt to favour his party: the map (with claws, wings, and fangs added), was published in the Boston Weekly Messenger, with the title The Gerry-Mander."

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